Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hope Cooke. Everyone was invited to lunch, and 5,000 came. Outsiders were introduced to chang, a "barley beer that works something like an atomic reactor," reports Shepherd, and is drunk through long, hollow bamboo tubes. Sikkimese were equally awed by being introduced to martinis...
Days of Wine and Roses tells a simple moving story: boy meets girl, boy gets drunk, boy gets girl drunk, boy gets girl, boy sobers up and goes to the Alcoholics Anonymous, girl stays drunk forever...
...dreary plug for the Alcoholics Anonymous, with numbered lessons, scraps of psychology, and frequent slogans. "At first it will be hell, but you can do it." "Your wife will want you to drink along with her; she'll resent your staying sober." "Listen--for twelve years I was drunk, and for fourteen years I've been sober. It's two different worlds...
Papa in real life was the papa of an old-time cinemama, Corinne Griffith, who wrote a book about him back in 1952. As the film describes it, life with Papa is one damn fling after another. Not that Papa is a drunk. But he is almost always in a "delicate condition,'' and when he is in a delicate condition he is apt to do any tomfool thing that happens to cross his mind. One morning, sick of looking at a neighbor's purple house, Papa grabs a ladder and-splat! the neighbor's house...
Couples recline, neuroses entwine, and Benny, friendly, polite and stupid, gets drunk and inadvertently invents the mad fad of yo-yoing. To yoyo, one gets piggy-drunk, falls asleep in the subway, and rides back and forth all night. The yo-yo who makes the most trips is champion, and the crosstown shuttle does not count...